Back to Attila

[Joseph Salmons]

Those -l- diminutives have deep historical roots, at least across
Germanic, maybe beyond. In German they are characteristic of southern
dialects. Alice Faber and Bob King used that in their work on
Bavarian elements in Yiddish, so Alice is the person in the know on
that subject.

Joe


On Jun 20, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> At 9:49 AM -0500 6/20/07, Joseph Salmons wrote:
>> And -ila is a common diminutive/hypocoristic suffix with names
>> (including the just-mentioned bishop/translator, connected to 'wolf')
>> and beyond (like barnilo, 'little kid').
>>
>> Joe
>> who's somewhat surprised that discussion has turned to an area he
>> knows a little about
>>
> any relation to the Yiddish diminutive of "bubbeleh", "kindeleh",
> "keppeleh"?
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> LH
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